Release candidates are incomplete versions of 3.0, delivering a subset of the 3.0 road map. New functionality has been thoroughly tested but should be considered not yet proven.

Early adopters interested in deploying Openbravo 3.0 RC5 for new implementation projects are recommended to thoroughly test planned business processes before deploying release into a production environment.

Check out what's new, the known issues and frequently asked questions about the next release of Openbravo. As always, you are encouraged to tell us what you think, by raising an issue in issues.openbravo.com or discussing it in the Early Releases Discussion forum.

What's New

Filter by Date ranges: filtering dates in the Openbravo 3 RC4 grid was limited to filter by a specific date. Now it is possible to filter by date ranges with a number of built-in options to choose the dates from and to: today, yesterday, current day of last month, N quarters ago, etc.

Document links: new feature available in the toolbar of all Openbravo windows to get a link (url) that points to that specific document/record. That link can be place in the browser location or in the quick launcher to directly navigate to that document/record.

Fixed issues

Product selector is empty in the Sales / Purchase Invoice. By default it applies warehouse filter which it should not. If you open Product selector window and remove filtering by the warehouse products appear and you can continue operation.

Translation modules are not applied properly for some parts of the application (for example, for the workspace).

15994: Is not possible to customize currency precisions. Now the dataset 'Masterdata' is only applied on the initial database creation and it is never updated in the database on subsequent module updates.

16329: Export.database doesn't update structure checksum. Now a update.database following any export.database does not fail always with a 'database has local changes' warning.

16334: Using PostgreSQL database: Having a module installed with a PL function, it is not possible to update this module if it changes that function's signature.

16167: Using Oracle database: After enabling, Heartbeat window is not working in Classic mode

Known issues

Appliance: when installing modules the Module Management Console reports local changes in the database and it fails. This is a false positive and it will be fixed as an emergency update. As a workaround you can run "ant smartbuild -Dlocal=no" from the command line. From that moment on the false positive will go away. See 16422

When using a date format different from the standard, windows with @#Date@ defaults do not work. See 16392

Filter does not work properly when only one result is found. See 16420

It has been reported that in some cases the rebuild process requires more RAM memory. It is recommended to run the virtual appliances with at least 1.5GB of RAM. We plan to review and solve this issue in the following weeks.

Upgrade path from Openbravo 2.50 to Openbravo 3.0 RC5 is not supported. We plan to make it available with 2.50 MP29.

Not all the modules available for 2.50 are available with 3.0 RC5 but significant portion is. Openbravo plans to make 100% of its modules available for 3.0 in the coming months. The availability of third party modules is outside of Openbravo's control.

The Ubuntu package is ready in our Launchpad PPA. It has been delivered to the Canonical archive admins, and following their QA procedure it will be available in the Partner Repository within a few days. Until this happens you can install it from the PPA.

These are Community deliverables. 3.0RC5 as Cloud Stack Appliances and EC2 AMIs (32bit and 64bit) are available only for the Professional Edition and they can be downloaded from the Partner Restricted Area.

Online Demo

We have set up our online demo so that it's easier for you to test this 3.0 RC5 release. Select the Country and the language to log in. Check it out!